Knowledge-attitude and practice of primary and secondary school students toward tobacco use in Al-Mukalla City

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Background : The habit of tobacco use is initiated during early youth and this age group require constant monitoring and timely appropriate action to curtail usage.

Objective : To assess Knowledge, attitude and practice of primary and secondary school students toward tobacco use in Al-Mukalla city.

Design & Methods : A cross-sectional-based study was carried out from February to April-2010 among 3688 primary and secondary school students selected randomly by using self-administered questionnaire.

Results & Conclusion : The study indicated that 8.3 % of students are current tobacco use.

18.2 % of students used tobacco only for one time and main cause was to try 49.4 %.

Despite Exposure to passive tobacco smoke is now accepted as a real risk to health, most of the students exposed to passive smoking 82 % and Transport facility was the most common site of exposure.